KaiSchaller.com

A quick update:

I’ve accepted a web developer position with a company in St. Louis and will start working there in the new year. This also means I need to brush up on my ASP, since they’re running IIS and the like.

Finals week is upon us and I find myself with little desire to labor through it. But alas, I must. Thank goodness it’s over soon.

I’ve recently been giving some thought to creating a separate site for a freelance web development business. It’d be nice to keep this domain at a more personal level (although I try to keep it fairly professional and relevant without veering off into MySpace-esque blathering) while having a separate site to give out to potential clients and the like.

But I’ll have to think of a name, first.

It’s the last week of college for me, and I graduate in 12 days. It’s difficult to find the motivation to keep going to class when I’d rather be doing other things like getting my move to St. Louis figured out, cleaning the apartment, etc. I’m taking some more things down to St. Louis on Tuesday, and possibly over the weekend as well. There may also be one more trip to St. Joseph in the cards, depending on how much stuff I find that needs to be taken care of. Either way, things will be hectic at the same time they are winding down.

But perhaps most importantly of all, my Aeron chair has been delivered and I’ve ordered the 24″ iMac. December 15th will truly be a good day.

My dad is planning on buying me a new 24″ iMac as a graduation present in December and I’m beginning to get very excited about it. A lot of this probably has to do with the release of Leopard, since I know it’ll look and function even better on a newer system than on my dated PowerBook G4.

I can definitely see myself making the iMac my new primary computer. I’ve always been a PC guy when it came to getting actual work done, but that is looking to change. What I will still need my PC for is the occasional game of Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, or whatever else the fellas happen to be playing at the time. However, now that EA has signed on with Apple (and the fact that AAPL is gaining market share) it probably won’t be long before game developers start releasing Mac-compatible versions of their games.

In other news, my capstone project is trucking along, and I shouldn’t have a problem getting it finished in time for the November 26th presentation. In the end it will be functional, and time will determine how feature-rich it becomes.

After a formidable amount of brainstorming I’ve finally put together an acceptable capstone proposal and am only 1 more faculty signature away from approval.

I will be developing a plugin for WordPress that adds mailing list functionality to the interface. The goal is to make it really easy for people with WordPress to create and manage a mailing list without having to deal with database and server-side code creation. This plugin is being developed specifically for our state representatives website, but I think I should be able to submit it to the WordPress Plugin Directory without rewriting any code.

I have until roughly Thanksgiving to get everything completed, wish me luck!